{"id":3485,"date":"2009-11-16T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2009-11-16T12:17:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:17:36","slug":"security-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/11\/16\/security-that-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Security That Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/beyond_security.html\">has up another essay well worth reading<\/a>.  It doesn&#8217;t contain much that he hasn&#8217;t already said, but it does a good job of tying things together.  And it makes a point I&#8217;m afraid is lost on all the Republicans clutching their pearls over the KSM trial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best way to help people feel secure is by acting secure around them. Instead of reacting to terrorism with fear, we &#8212; and our leaders &#8212; need to react with indomitability.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>By not overreacting, by not responding to movie-plot threats, and by not becoming defensive, we demonstrate the resilience of our society, in our laws, our culture, our freedoms. There is a difference between indomitability and arrogant &#8216;bring &#8217;em on&#8217; rhetoric. There&#8217;s a difference between accepting the inherent risk that comes with a free and open society, and hyping the threats&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country&#8217;s way of life; it&#8217;s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/beyond_security.html\">whole thing<\/a> is very much worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier has up another essay well worth reading. It doesn&#8217;t contain much that he hasn&#8217;t already said, but it does a good job of tying things together. And it makes a point I&#8217;m afraid is lost on all the Republicans clutching their pearls over the KSM trial: The best way to help people feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}